People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — GAVE NOT QUARRELED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GAVE NOT QUARRELED

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND AND SECRETARY OLNEY AGREE. P*rf*et Unanimity of Oplnloa Sold to Exist Between Thom oa the Tone* anelon Question Views of Senator Callom on the SubjectWashington, Oct. 24. —The rumored clash in the cabinet between the president and his secretary of state over questions of foreign policy has been widely discussed here, and almost unanimously denounced as a “fake,” suggested probably by Secretary Olney’s failure to accompany the president and cabinet to Atlanta. When Mr. Olney was elevated to the first place in the cabinet to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Gresham, the president was thoroughly familiar with his views on foreign affairs. He had had two years’ association with

him at the cabinet table, and had listened to his opinion upon the Monroe doctrine and questions of foreign policy. It is therefore unreasonable to suppose that either Mr. Olney, who accepted the state department portfolio fully aware of the president’s views on affairs of state, or that the president, who thoroughly understood him, should find cause for disagreement in a subject which has been discussed over and over again since Mr. Cleveland was first inaugurated in 1885. This rumor is undoubtedly in line with the sensational dispatches which have recently been sent broadcast over the country concerning developments in the Venezuela boundary dispute, and is generally accepted here as having no more foundation. Senator Cullom left Washington last night for Illinois, uncertain whether his duties would permit him to enter the Ohio campaign. In speaking of tho

Venezuelan situation, after admitting that he did not know much about what has been done and what is in contemplation by the present administration, he advocated a vigorous foreign policy. He thinks that the Venezuelan boundary dispute will come before the next congress. “There is no question about the sentiment in congress being in favor of the upholding of the Monroe doctrine,” said Senator Cullom. “It is a right doctrine and should be upheld. I presume the doctrine will be declared in some more or less formal manner by congress, and if the situation demands that anything be done to enforce* its observance, congress, I think, can be relied upon to act promptly. Great Britain does not seem to care very much for our opinion or our wishes, and we must maintain our own dignity and uphold our own rights. It looks as if most of the foreign powers had begun to feel that the United States is getting too powerful to maintain the old attitude of indifference toward the affairs of the world, and as if the saw in our increasing strength some imagined danger to themselves. They seem to be bridling up and displaying a disposition to press us back, forestalling any possible aggressiveness on our part.” Speaking of the next congress, Senator Cullom expressed the opinion that the session would be short, that there was very little prospect of financial legislation and that the administration would have to accept such provision for increased revenue as the republican congress would be willing to give or else have no relief at all.

SECRETARY OF STATE OLNEY.

SENATOR CULLOM.